After the Qing Dynasty government established the summer resort in Chengde, the cooking skills of all parts of the country and the imperial court successively flowed into Chengde, which promoted the prosperity and development of Chengde's food culture. In addition, Chengde is rich in mountain treasures and wild game, which makes Chengde's local food unique.
1: Soba river drain
Buckwheat noodles are a traditional crop in the Chengde region, especially in Bashang, and the noodles made from it have a special flavor, smooth and chewy. Soba noodles are divided into white soba noodles and black soba noodles, each with its own characteristics.
2) Bowl
The bowl is kneaded with buckwheat noodles and pig's blood, heated and boiled into a porridge paste, and then left to cool. When eating, cut it into thin triangular pieces, fry it thoroughly in a frying pan, put it in a bowl, pour it with sesame paste, garlic juice, aged vinegar, salt, monosodium glutamate and other ingredients, and eat it with bamboo sticks. This is very similar to the enema in Beijing, but the raw materials are different.
3: Donkey rolling
The Chengde area is rich in millet, which is called yellow rice in Chengde, and it is sticky. "Donkey rolling" is a popular snack made of black rice, which has a history of more than 200 years in Chengde. "Donkey rolling" is a long roll made of yellow rice filling, because the roll is laid under the soybean noodles, and the long roll is rolled on the bean noodles when eating, which looks quite like a donkey rolling, so it is named.
4) Eight immortals of wild game in a steam pot
The selection of high-quality mountain rare game as raw materials, such as roe deer meat, pheasant breast, hare, winter shoots, mushrooms, green peppers, etc., are steamed together in the pot, the original flavor when the pot is out, the soup is fresh and clear, the meat is crisp and delicious, and the taste is mellow.
5) Chicken with lotus leaves
Imperial Lotus Leaf Chicken, formerly known as Hua Chicken, is a Han special snack, after passing to Chengde, because of the use of Chengde's unique palace loess, Hot River spring water and lotus leaves in the lake as raw materials refined, so the name "Royal Soil Lotus Leaf Chicken".
6) Nansha cake
Also known as baguette cake. Filled with sugar, green and red silk, melon seeds, walnut kernels and spices, flour, buckwheat flour and noodles, the filling is formed and baked. Crispy, sweet and refreshing, the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty hunted in Pingquan, and praised it for its food, so it was a tribute. It has been produced for more than 500 years.
7: Flower rose cake
Flower rose cake is a famous specialty of Chengde City, which is made by using local specialty fresh roses as the main raw material and refined by traditional craftsmanship. This product has a long history, is one of the imperial court meals during the Qing Dynasty, with historical records, whenever kangxi came to Chengde to escape the summer or go hunting in the paddock, this cake was used as a special food to enjoy.
8: Chengde tiger dish
Cut into finely chopped green peppers, green onions, coriander, etc., put into a bowl, add soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, vinegar to form a dipping sauce, because this dipping sauce tastes spicy, so it is called tiger dish. In fact, tiger dishes can not only be used as a dipping sauce for dishes, but also can be used as a small dish for people to enjoy.
9) Rice cake
Jiangmi cold cake is a flavor snack that has been circulating in Chengde for nearly 300 years. In the forty-fourth year of Qianlong (1779), it can be seen that the Qianlong Emperor often ate jiangmi cold cakes.